Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called "threats") to the U.S. defense budget. Here, then, is a simple question that no one bothers to ask, no less answer: How much are we spending on national security these days?
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- A House panel has unveiled a $608 billion defense spending bill that restores some of the programs the Pentagon wanted to cut next year ...
Nashua Patch | Robert Michaelson | Posted 11.21.2011
The Republican candidate zoned in on military defense and foreign policy issues as he addressed employees of the defense and security company. He b...
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 12.14.2011
If an extra trillion dollars in the last ten years meant a decaying defense force, how does Leon Panetta say he is going to prevent a hollowing out of our forces at the modestly lower budget levels he says he can live with?
AOL Defense | Posted 11.14.2011
Today, the Aerospace Industries Association unveiled its new effort, Second to None, designed to convince lawmakers and voters that cutting funding to...
Joe Sestak | Posted 10.30.2011
Secretary Panetta's role is to be accountable only to the young men and women who serve us, not to the defense complex.
AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Large new cuts in defense spending would "terribly weaken" U.S. national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday as he and...
Dr. David P. Gushee | Posted 09.26.2011
A budget is indeed a moral document, reflecting the character of a nation. All of our character qualities are being tested right now. All are pivotal.
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 07.11.2011
WASHINGTON — A House panel voted Wednesday to delay President Barack Obama's new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the military despite De...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.11.2011
WASHINGTON -- As Congress looks at all sorts of discretionary non-defense projects to cut to reduce the deficit, a core member of House Speaker John B...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Although many Republicans are still arguing that the Defense Department should be exempt from the belt-tightening the rest of the countr...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a public proponent of cutting military spending as a vehicle to balance budgets, took aim Tuesday at Sen. John McCain's (R-...
Christopher Hellman | Posted 05.22.2012